There are several posts explaining how to make transparent icons and banners in both this thread and in the thread that announced the Plazmic theme builder. Use a graphics editor to create a file of the correct deminsions with no background and save it as a png file.
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i just finished my 1st theme, everythihng is perfect except that my background image I setup in theme builder doesn't show up when i activate the theme. i set it as the background, then as the background & the mask.

What do i need to do?

DISREGUARD I FOUND THE ISSUE....I guess size does matter!

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Great job everyone. Especially on the transparent icons. Looks great. I am using the transparent icons from one of the themes listed above and this wall paper. Looks great, especially being in sales for Cingular. its def and eye catcher.

The Yoda ones are really cool looking. Just a question for all you theme makers. The invisible icons look awesome since you only see it when you pass over it. Much better than the first batch of translucent ones. Anyways is it possible to make a theme where the icons are invisible and the middle portion where it says EDGE can be invisible also? I like the bars for my battery and signal but don't like the middle portion. If it's possible to make that invisible lemme know.

Truth is i have about 10,000 icons already croped/cut to the size i need and the wallpaper can be done is 30 seconds. So as i find new images that look ok i can post in only the time it takes to save the new theme. The thing that honestly slows me down is searching over all the icons looking for something i remember i have but can't seem to find.

I use Jasc Paintshop Pro 9 and Adobe Photoshop Elements for most changes. Every now and then i have to use something else but not too often. I am starting to organize my icons more and place then into folders according to the theme and or what they are. For example i have all the star wars icons but they are mixed with Half-Life and Quake icons. I have all the default icons seperated out by opacity 50%, 40%, 30% 20% 10%, and 0 for 100% translucent. I have all the NFL helments seperated by division and same with the Division 1 college helments. Since i did that it has helped me blaze over to the folder with what i need rather than clicking thru 10 different directories looking for only few items.

So to answer your question? Organize your graphics into areas you can surf thru and find what you need.

where or how did you get your precut icons?

it is taking me an hour just to recrop the damn icons. Can you upload the icons to a zip? i would appreciate it. I have 4 themes that i want to complete. but i can't stand to put the time in the icons.

Anyone have a .thm of the list theme for 8700 device? i only have a 7100t and my plazmic does not have a template for list theme for 8700.